Produced for television by Claude-Jean Philippe, the « Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma », recounts the history of French cinema from its birth to the beginning of the 1960s. With commentary read by Jean Rochefort.
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (Season 1)
Les inventeurs ou la rencontre des photographes et des fantômes 0.0
Air date: 1978-09-24
Overview: Claude-Jean Philippe sees the invention of cinema as the meeting of photographers and ghosts. This film chronologically follows the progress of two inventions: Joseph Plateau's discovery of the persistence of retinal images, the perfection of his phenakitiscope, and Nieppe's invention of photography. The Lumière brothers' cinematograph is the culmination of this double discovery.
Lumière et le cinématographe 0.0
Air date: 1978-10-01
Méliès ou le génie de la surprise 0.0
Air date: 1978-10-08
Le cinéma forain 0.0
Air date: 1978-10-15
Episode 5 0.0
Air date: 1978-10-22
Episode 6 0.0
Air date: 1978-10-29
Episode 7 0.0
Air date: 1978-11-05
Episode 8 0.0
Air date: 1978-11-12
Episode 9 0.0
Air date: 1978-11-19
Episode 10 0.0
Air date: 1978-11-26
Episode 11 0.0
Air date: 1978-12-03
Episode 12 0.0
Air date: 1978-12-10
Les Années 20: De l'impressionnisme au cinéma pur 0.0
Air date: 1978-12-17
Overview: Cinema owes a lot to this experimental laboratory that was the French avant-garde between 1919 and 1924. Based on this observation by Henri Langlois, Claude-Jean Philippe shows that these filmmakers (Louis Delluc, Marcel L'Herbier) accused their difference, like the impressionist group. On the other hand, at the end of the 1920s, everyone dreamed of a "pure cinema".
Seasons
Episodes 13
Episodes 27